Nursing bottle holder



Jan. 9, 1945. F PLAIN 2,366,931

NURSING BOTTLE HOLDER Filed Oct. 29. 1943 f, I I

\ HIM i N 5 @Wmmmc g Patented Jan. 9, 1945 UNITED STATES NURSING BOTTLE HOLDER.

Frank Plain, Oconto Falls, Wis.

Application October 29, 1943, Serial No. 508,101

2 Claims.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple and convenient nursing bottle holder, the same comprising a base-pad carrying standard and having a universally adjustable resilient vacuum cup for supporting the bottle, whereby the same is capable of flexure or tilt due to the resilient mushroom cup which serves as 'a fulcrum bottle support.

Another object of my invention is to provide a standard terminating with an inclined arm and a vacuum cup having a threaded stem engaging the arm whereby rotary adjustment as to horizontal angle and vertical elevation of the bottle is supported.

With the above and other minor objects in view, the invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts as will be hereinafter fully set forth with reference to the accompanying drawing and subsequently claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 represents a side, elevational view of a nursing bottle holder embodying the features of my invention showing a vacuum cup in section,

with its stem connection.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the same, with parts broken away to more clearly illustrate structural features.

Referring, by characters to the drawing, indie vacuum cup 5.

As shown in Figure 1 of the drawing, the resilient vacuum cup is adapted to receive one wall of a nursing bottle A provided with the usual nipple B. It being noted that, due to the angular 40 position of the vacuum cup, the bottle is firmly secured at a slight angle with relation to the basepad. Hence, due to this position, the bottle may be rotated with the stem 4 to change the angular position of the nipple and also the elevation of said bottle, with reference to the base-pad, may be varied with respect to said pad, whereby any desired position can be obtained.

In the process of nursing, it is natural for 50 the infant to grasp the bottle neck to direct the flow of milk from the nipple and in so doing the resilient seal between the vacuum cup and face of the bottle will permit a springy yield to said bottle which will compensate for the movement up and down from the point of anchorage beis inserted into the infants mouth, whereby the bottle is securely, but flexibly, held in position and it is also obvious that said bottle may be readily detached from the vacuum cup after the feeding .5 operation. Furthermore, the point of adhesion between the cup. and bottle may be predeterminately selected with special reference to the size of the bottle and weight contents.

It should be borne in mind that the position of the nipple relative to the baseboard is universally adjustable and also that the horizontal angle of the bottle with relation to the baseboard is important due to the fact that said angle determines the volume of fluid drawn through the nipple, provided the infant fails to manually ,shift said nipple. Hence the quantity of the fluid drawn from the bottle may be, under certain conditions, predetermined due to the fact that when the line of the fluid drops below the nipple the flow ceases.

In cases where the infant is older, the coupling between the bottle and the device, being flexible, the infant will naturally hold the bottle and shift it about or finger it naturally as he would the breast. So far as I am aware no bottle holder ing bottle holder' comprising a base-pad, a stand- 'ard extending therefrom, a resilient vacuum cup for gripping engagement with a bottle at any point throughout its length and forming a yieldable coupling to permit fiexure of said bottle in nursing, a stem extending from the cup in threaded engagement with the standard, whereby the bottle is rotatably adjusted relative to the the base-pad and tiltable with the cup.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a nursing bottle holder comprising a base-pad, a vertically positioned standard extending therefrom terminating with an angular arm at an acute angle to the standard, a resilient vacuum cup for gripping engagement 'with a bottle at any point throughout its length and permitting a tiltable action upon the bottle, a stem extending from the cup in threaded union with the angular standard arm, whereby a swivel movement of the cup and. bottle will raise or lower said bottle with reference to the pad and vary the horizontally disposed angular position of said bottle relative I 'to the base.

FRANK PLAIN. 

